To wish my friend would STOP telling me how well her baby sleeps

My friend had a little boy 2 weeks ago, and he sleeps beautifully, only wakes once or twice in the night for a feed, has lovely long naps in the day, and feeds well.

I suffered with both mine - tongue ties and feeding issues, never sleeping, etc etc. am still in the throes of sleep deprivation with 6 month DS who only naps 20 mins at a time and wakes up every 2 hours (or less) at night.

I am very very happy for her, and I'm not wishing for her idyllic baby to change, but AIBU to wish she'd STOP texting me saying 'Ah, DS just had a 3 hour nap after his morning feed', or posting on FB about how she's finding everything soooo easy, keeping her house clean and getting everything done.

It's driving me insane! She knows how knackered I am. Stop with the stealth boasting! It makes me feel shit.

Oh YANBU. We have a variable sleeper. Rubbish napper, very difficult to settle. Total boob monster.

Actually I'd be worried if my 2 week old was only waking once in the night?! Babies aren't designed to go so long without feeding, not when they're that little. In fact DD went through a lovely, long forgotten period of sleeping through from 7 weeks and I contacted the lactation consultant for my PCT because I knew it was abnormal. I'd be tempted to send a few cheeky texts suggesting there's something abnormal! In reality, a gentle conversation about how it's not very helpful to you wouldn't go amiss.

Pride comes before a fall - my friend was always putting rather smug FB posts about how well her DS slept. Now it's moans about how awful he is as a toddler!

Yanbu. I got my first 2 hours in an evening to myself this week as we have finally managed to get 6 month dd's bedtime to around 7, and since putting her in her own room at the weekend is feeding for an hour or so before sleeping for a couple. She doesn't normally nap longer than half an hour at a time either and my house is a mess, <shrugs>

Just smile and nod. Dd slept through between 4 and 15 weeks then we hit the sleep regression and I've been up every night since so she may only be able to brag for a few weeks more!

2 weeks? She's still on a high I bet. She may come crashing down back to earth and I think you should be a good friend and not be smug if she does. This happened to me with DS, he developed reflux and this distressed him a lot and that stressed me out for a good month and a half. Once his reflux was cured he went back to the good baby he was.

When DS was 2 weeks he was great at napping in the day and would be up 2/3 times a night. 2 months later he would sleep through, now at 5 months he has 20 min naps and is again waking up 2/3 times a night!!

Ah I remember when my baby was a perfect newborn.........fast forward to the point where he got to big for the Moses basket and I've had nothing but sleep problems!. 18 months now and he still doesn't go to sleep before 10.30

Just wait till her wonderfully 'easy' baby hits the 3 week growth spurt, and then the six week one, etc etc etc. Then wait some more, till her baby's sleep cycles become more clearly defined at around the three month stage and he does 45 mins maximum for a nap and that's just if she's lucky. And then sit back and wait for the four month growth spurt, and prepare to be all sympathy and smiles!

Honestly, lots of babies seem easy in the first couple of weeks (obviously lots of others aren't especially if there are feeding issues etc). I have had three who all pretty much slept and fed for the first two weeks. It doesn't last!

Seriously you can still be her friend without having her fb updates in your timeline. I have turned off my smuggest boastiest friend. It is very soothing, the silence of not having to hear about her perfect life any more. She doesn't know - she doesn't expect a response to any of this. it is just how she likes to boom her personality out to the universe and has no interest in anyone's reaction to it